What did you expect to happen?

Complete until an exhaustion of resources and then give error

What were you hoping to prove?
Find why my program exited without error

Your sleeps are not doing what you think.
Thanks.... learned something new...

I modified the code... now I can see the thread count
increment in process monitor but yet the perl app still
exits at random times without error.

I should have stated Windows 2000 Build 2195 SP4

I'll see if activestate has an update

Thanks for all the info

Here is the code that still fails

use strict;
use warnings;
use threads;

my $thread_count = 0;

for (1..5000) {
  threads->new(\&handle_thread,++$thread_count);
}
sleep 10;
print "--Parent Quits --";

######################

sub handle_thread {
    my $thread_count = shift;
    threads->self->detach;                # so long parent
    print "You are thread number $thread_count \n";
    sleep 3;
}

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--jammin

In reply to Re^2: Win32 and threads; by jammin2night
in thread Win32 and threads; by jammin2night

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